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Old-School X-Men with Lincoln Crisler

July 15, 2014 by Lincoln Crisler 6 Comments

Greetings, and welcome to the very first installment of my All-new, All-different X-Men column for Comic Book Herald! Each week, I’m going to review, in chronological order, Uncanny X-Men issues from my favorite era of the team: a 15-year span from around the time I was born (1982) to right before Onslaught happened (1997). To me, Onslaught signaled the end of the X-Men I’d grown up with, right down to the rather haphazard (in my humble opinion) solution to the “X-Men traitor” plot that had been woven throughout the X-Titles since I was like, ten. I’m not one of those guys who hates the new stuff because the old stuff was so awesome. I just feel like there have been a lot of highs and lows for the mutant books since then. For some reason, probably simple nostalgia, those older storylines could do no wrong. Practically. 

uncanny_x-men_vol_1_193Next week, we’re going to jump right in with Uncanny X-Men #193. To a casual X-Men fan, this might seem arbitrary as all get out, but bear with me. Uncanny #193 is the hundredth issue since Giant-Size X-Men #1, which was, of course, the first appearance of the “new” X-Men team. It’s from 1985, right smack in the middle of the first of my two favorite X-Men decades, and we have what I consider to be the “complete” X-Men of that time period: Shadowcat had plenty of time to come into her own by this point and Rogue had not only joined the team but had become an integral and trusted X-Man. Finally, Rachel Grey had made her debut just a few issues before and key characters for years to come had made their first appearances, as well: namely Valerie Cooper, Forge and Madelyn Pryor. There’s no better starting point for a discussion of the 80s and 90s X-Men, as far as I’m concerned.

lincoln-crislerOh, who the heck am I, anyhow? Well, besides being a huuuuuge comics fan with a twenty-year love affair with the X-Men, I’m a publishing author and editor of horror and science fiction and an active-duty United States Army soldier, currently serving the last month of a year-long tour in South Korea. I have over 30 published short stories to my name and two novellas. I recently released a novel-length collection of speculative fiction, Queen & Other Stories, and my first novel and third anthology as editor are both scheduled for publication in the fall. Even more exciting, an anthology of dark superhero fiction I edited in 2012 (and which is currently out-of-print) is scheduled for a re-release later this year. It’s called Corrupts Absolutely? and it’ll be my pleasure to share more details as they come up. But most importantly, I’m a major X-Men aficionado—comics in general were a big part of my childhood as well as a large part of what helps me keep it together while I’m overseas and away from my family.

I hope to see you again next week, when things start getting real.

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Lincoln Crisler is a horror and science fiction novelist and editor, and a US Army combat veteran. He lives and works in Augusta, Georgia. Visit him online at http://lincolncrisler.info

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  4. kurt bali says

    July 17, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    I’m also a huge fan of that era of X-Men and remember when I bought the issue you have featured. It’s still one of my favorites because, to me, it represents the X-Men right before they began to go mainstream, when it was still the nice little secret for a lot of fans. I look forward to reading your columns.

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    • --L. says

      July 17, 2014 at 3:49 pm

      Glad you’re into it so far! My first X-Men comic was the Heroes for Hope charity special, which came out around the same time and, of course, featured the same exact lineup of X-Men. I also got a couple of the Nimrod-heavy issues around the same time. Miiiiiight have something to do with my love of the 80s X-Men.

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